Just War and the Responsibility to Protect by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786991539
Publisher: Book Network Int'l Limited trading as NBN International (NBNi)
Published: 2019-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Even a small redirection of the money spent on arms could make a marked difference to the scale of everyday atrocity. But the arms trade is not only a problem because it uses resources that could improve living conditions for millions of people. It also plays a role in reproducing a world in which directly physically violent events that shock the conscience of humankind continue to occur. Access to weapons is vital for regimes that use oppression to remain in power. And in case the reader thinks that states – particularly “liberal” ones – are reluctant to provide arms to dictatorial regimes: when it comes to conventional arms, ‘Western (European and US) arms sales do not systematically prefer democracies’, and the USA even seems ‘to prefer more autocratic regimes’ (De Soysa and Midford, 2012, 844). The UK government identified 28 countries of concern in a 2014–2015 human rights and democracy report only to approve arms export licences to 18 of them (CAAT, 2017). Similar findings hold regarding the relationship between arms sales and human rights: European powers do not favour human rights-respecting regimes when transferring arms (Perkins and Neumayer, 2010). ‘Western foreign policy rhetoric’ therefore ‘does not match reality’ (De Soysa and Midford, 2012, 844).

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